Why did Bhagat Singh left his studies?

Answer 1

After completion of his primary education at his native village, he studied at the D.A.V. High School and the D.A.V. College at Lahore. The Non-Corporation movement started by Mahatma Gandhi inspired Bhagat Singh to join National College, Lahore started by LalaLajpatRai and BhaiParmanand. This was the time when Bhagat Singh came in contact with his future associates like Sukhdev,Yash Pal,Jai dev. Etc. He evinced great interest in his studies. A voracious reader, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the study of history, politics and economics. His special interest was the history of revolutions in various countries of the world. In college, he became the leader of the student community and founded the college students' union. During in college Bhagat Singh took active part in the non-corporation movements as "Swaraj" was promised by Mahatma Gandhi In a one years time.

In 1922, the Congress organized a procession in the town of Chaurachauri in Gorakhpur District where a few non cooperators were killed by the police. In protest of this a mob locked up twenty-two policemen together in a house, set fire to the house and burnt them. Mahatma Gandhi felt very sad at all this. He asked the people to end the non- cooperation movement which was then going on in the country.

The sudden end of the non-corporation movement came as a sudden blow and a huge disappointment to Bhagat Singh and the youth. Should an important movement be given up, because 22 policemen died in the struggle to attain freedom? Before that, a nineteen-year-old revolutionary by the name Kartar SinghSarabha who was Bhagat Singh's idol had been hanged by the British Government. Then none of these supporters of nonviolence raised any objection. How could non-violence become so important now? Such thoughts weakened Bhagat Singh's faith in non - violence and non-cooperation movements.

At the age of 16, Bhagat Singh left home to go to Kanpur due to his family's pressure on him to get married.